But some House lawmakers, such as Manchester Rep. Amanda Bouldin, told the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee Tuesday that this program has been a “failure.”

“The state of New Hampshire at this point has squandered enough money to put every single person that they arrested through a treatment program and a large percentage of those people were small time users, they weren’t heroin dealers,” Bouldin told the committee.

Public safety officials, on the other hand, argue the program is working, stressing that when targeting dealers, users will sometimes get caught up in these large drug busts.

The state gave the Granite Hammer program roughly $1.2 million back in July. So far, more than 300 arrests have been made, but it's unclear how many of those arrested were dealers.